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Excerpt from The Arawack Language of Guiana in Its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations
From the various sources which I have examined, the alphabet of the lo-ngua universal appears to have been as follows a, b, d, e, (rarely used at the commencement of a word), g, j, (an aspirated guttural like the Catalan j, or as Peter Martyr says, like the Arabic ch), i(rare), i (rare), m, n, o (rare, ) p, q, r, s, t, u, y. 'these letters, it will be remembered, are as in Spanish.
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